http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:01:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/25/what-is-the-point-of-being-an-artist/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/25/what-is-the-point-of-being-an-artist/#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:00:58 +0000 Anwar Oduro-Kwarteng http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=19017 Picture the scene; Thomas returns home after travelling to Vietnam or somewhere equally exotic yet gritty, and declares that he is going to be an artist. His father is stunned into silence, and his mother faints. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/25/what-is-the-point-of-being-an-artist/feed/ 4 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/11/12/poetry-and-the-tyranny-of-relevance/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/11/12/poetry-and-the-tyranny-of-relevance/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:00:39 +0000 Anwar Oduro-Kwarteng http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=6097 For decades the world of poetry has been simultaneously lamenting the supposed demise of its impact on society, and having an internal discussion about whether poetry still has any relevance in the modern world.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/11/12/poetry-and-the-tyranny-of-relevance/feed/ 1